The Cheffe
By: Marie NDiaye
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women: an elegant, hypnotic new novel about…
Want to Read $ 12.99"that's my way, always jealous and never thin"-Marie NDiaye, The Cheffe
"that's my way, always jealous and never thin"-Marie NDiaye, The Cheffe
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1. The Black Prince
By: Iris Murdoch , Martha C. Nussbaum
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Coming events do cast shadows."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I've thought about nothing else but you."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I know people can be awful dooms for each other."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
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- womens
3. There but for the
By: Ali Smith
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man w… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
4. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
5. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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6. Lennon
By: David Foenkinos
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Apres une enfance terrible, une plongee precoce dans l'immense celebrite, sa rencontre decisive ave… read more
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7. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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8. Les Liaisons dangereuses
By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée
4.06
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more
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- literature
- novels
- france
- fiction
"J'ai vécu"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
9. Short Letter, Long Farewell
By: Peter Handke , Ralph Manheim , Greil Marcus
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
Short Letter, Long Farewellis one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's n… read more
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10. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- france
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
11. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
12. A Single Rose
By: Muriel Barbery
3.45
Format: 160 pages, ebook
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey … read more
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- literary fiction
- france
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter."-Muriel Barbery, A Single Rose
13. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
By: Malika Moustadraf
3.83
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
14. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
15. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
16. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
By: Lore Segal
3.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
19. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
20. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
21. Three Summers
By: Margarita Liberaki
3.76
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countrys… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord."-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood."-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"It was during those moments that he realized that he experienced true happiness. Whereas big events - like when he graduated or got married to Maria or learned he would be a father - brought worries …"-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone as…"-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
22. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
23. Seven Steeples
By: Sara Baume
3.53
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples
24. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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- womens
- contemporary
25. Do What They Say or Else
By: Annie Ernaux
3.68
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie E… read more
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- literature
- france
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
"In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo."-Annie Ernaux, Do What They Say or Else
"El caso es que cuando era pequeña no prestaba atención a las palabras, los recuerdos de infancia son de cine mudo."-Annie Ernaux, Do What They Say or Else
26. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.05
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more
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- adult
- fiction
27. Anhelo de raíces
By: May Sarton
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
«En aquel primer fin de semana establecí el rito de la cena. Cuando me sentara a la mesa, tenía que… read more
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"Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change."-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces
"In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates."-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces
"I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem."-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces
"Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique"-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces
28. The Cheffe
By: Marie NDiaye
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women: an elegant, hypnotic new novel about… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- cooking
- food
- france
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
- novels
- adult
"that's my way, always jealous and never thin"-Marie NDiaye, The Cheffe
29. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
31. Disbound: Poems (Kuhl House Poets)
By: Hajar Hussaini
4.71
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
Hajar Hussaini’s poems in Disbound scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherite… read more
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